September 15, 2019

Local capital investment group Access Ventures launched a $3 million competition on Monday to address housing insecurity in the Louisville area, which will solicit ideas from all over the country. Instead of a brick-and-mortar solution to the affordable housing crisis that involves constructing or...

Local capital investment group Access Ventures announced Tuesday that it is exploring national partnerships to create a fund specifically to invest in the newly created Opportunity Zones in Louisville and several other cities, taking advantage of federal legislation passed late last year to incentivize...

Creating an entrepreneurial center has been a topic of conversation among Louisville startups and supporters for, basically, ever. But every time players from the community got together to really brainstorm the idea, it has always fizzled out. Briefly, Velocity in Southern Indiana served that...

In just a few weeks, a trailblazing company by the name of Facilities Management Services will move into a brand-new headquarters in the Portland neighborhood. It is the kind of business that is happy to thrive in the background, which FMS has done since...

Access Ventures, a 501(c)(3) impact investment group that provides capital to mission-aligned businesses, has been named a “Best for the World Fund” and will be featured in the Winter issue of B Magazine. Best for the World Funds include investments groups that have completed...

Managing Director Bryce Butler announced today on social media that Access Ventures led a $700,000 round of investment for Phoenix-based Virtuous Software. The company makes a customer relationship management tool for charities. It is also available for small and medium-sized companies. The software is designed to...

Upcoming events at Velocity will both celebrate the accelerator program’s successes and consider its future. Velocity’s fourth Demo Day will be held at the Frazier History Museum on June 3. The five participating companies will present their progress to the public, business leaders and...

If you received the newsletter from Velocity announcing that managing director Tony Schy was stepping down, you’ll know that the post asked a few interesting questions about what the community wants the Velocity of the future to be. This is real. The stakeholders involved with...

By Rob Lalka, Village Capital, and Bryce Butler, Blue Sky Network What did you think of when you read that title? What did those words – impact investing – bring to mind? For some, it’s an area of great possibility. The reasoning goes: “My...

Earlier this month, Insider Louisville reported a new accelerator initiative was announced by The Hitachi Foundation, Village Capital and Investors’ Circle. The initiative, SOURCE: Solutions from Our Country’s Entrepreneurs, is being launched in only four cities, and Louisville is on the list. In fact, the VentureWell/Village Capital accelerator program that took place in Louisville...